Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Family Math Issues

Mrs. Hyper: "I have 3 kids."

Dr. Grumpy: "That's nice. Boys? Girls?"

Mrs. Hyper: "One of each."

10 comments:

  1. uuuummmm...... but you forgot the imaginary child.

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  2. To be fair, she didn't say ONLY one of each. So if she, say, had two boys and a girl, her answer is still true, she just left one out.

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  3. Specifically, they're hermaphrodite amputee triplets.

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  4. And this after I just posted a whine about math education in this country.

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  5. Well, you know what they say. There are three types of people in this world, those who can count, and those who can't.

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  6. If she is pregnant and doesn't now the sex of the child then according to quantum mechanics the child is:
    a boy and not a boy and also
    a girl and not a girl.

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  7. Anonymous: don't forget that you have to renormalize the wavefunctions of all three children so that the sum total adds up to one boy and one girl.

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  8. Disca Man: But if the wave function has not collapsed yet then currently the third child is 50% male and 50% female.
    Is half one way or the other?

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So wadda you think?